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The Six Skills of Great Sales VPs

SBI Growth

However, we frequently see Sales VPs still stuck in the sales manager mindset. An ill-prepared sales manager damages his region. A Sales VP focused on the wrong things can ruin the entire company. They cross collaborate with manager peers, their reps, and the VP. Reps that fail are re-trained.

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Hiring Best Practice: Test Before You Offer

SBI Growth

Sales can learn a lesson here. Sign up here to receive a copy of the Sales Job Tryout Toolkit. Read on and you''ll be ready to Make the Number in 2014. Here''s a 7-step overview of a tryout for a sales rep. (To The tryout works well across a variety of Sales roles. This post will help take the risk out of hiring.

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Sales role plays – do them right then they work

Sales Training Connection

Sales role plays. From time to time we hear disparaging words about the use of role-plays in sales training programs. Here are some fundamentals for designing sales role-plays that will create an experience that will be well received by salespeople and sales managers – provide a platform for real behavior change.

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PODCAST 134: What Great Teams and Great Leaders Hold in Common with Ilan Jacobson

Sales Hacker

It started in a backyard in 2006; I invested when they had one location in 2014. And sometimes I think it’s a function of trying to find what people’s passion is, and then sometimes they haven’t been trained. And people look at me like I was absolutely insane when I invested in that. It’s just impossible.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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So What Makes This Business and Sales Blog Different?

Increase Sales

Small businesses do not have separate sales managers or marketing departments. The small business owners usually wear plethora of hats including sales manager and marketing director. Sure technical sales skills are important. By December 31, 2014, this business and sales blog will exceed 2,000 postings.